Mobilizing Public Opinion - Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era

List of Tables and Figures Introduction 1. Elite Opinion Theory and Activated Mass Opinion 2. Black Insurgency and the Dynamics of Mass Opinion 3. The Sovereign Status of Survey Data 4. Constituency Mail as Public Opinion 5. The Racial, Regional, and Organizational Bases of Mass Activation 6. Contested Meanings and Movement Agency 7. Two Nations, Separate Grooves Appendix One: Question Wording, Scales, and Coding of Variables in Survey Analysis Appendix Two: Bibliographic Sources for Racial Attitude Items, 1937-1965 Appendix Three: Sampling and Coding of Constituency Mail Appendix Four: Typology of Interpretive Frames Notes References Acknowledgments Index

A propos de l'auteur

Taeku Lee is an assistant professor of public policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Résumé

Investigating the question of opinion changing attitudes during periods of political unrest, Lee argues that the protests of local, ordinary people pushed demands for social change. His arguments are substantiated with considerable evidence from multiple sources.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Taeku Lee, Lee Taeku
• Edition: University Presses
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780226470252
• ISBN: 978-0-226-47025-2
• Pages: 301
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Poids: 454 g
• Thèmes: Studies in Communication, Medi; Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion (CHUP); Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Théories politiques et histoire des idées; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Political activism, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls, Political activism / Political engagement, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Opinion Polling